Schools or Fools?

School begins shortly.  After two years of Covid lock down and its ensuing neurosis, what is the mood about school starting a new academic year?  Colleges and universities are more flexible, because the formative twelve years of education are over.  Not everyone goes to college, but there is much more freedom in this system.  The stringent seven hour day is gone.  The remnants of a troubled public education system are here.  To mask or not to mask?  Teaching via the laptop.  Shelter at home.  Appropriate pronouns.  I am a certified teacher, and it is too much.  Arm teachers?  It really is absurd, and other than the social activities and sports, is education happening?  We no longer can decide on the curriculum.  Woke?  Critical Race Theory?  Evolution or Creationism.  Is there a God, and should he be included?  It is a mess.  The infiltration of education by the personal computer and the internet has caused irrepairable harm to our system of teaching.  It is about content, not method.  I would not suggest that the traditional curriculum of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, biology, and chemistry will prepare you for an available job in the tech sector.  These courses do make you think.  They teach you to use your mind to solve problems.  Using your mind, not a computer is key.  I will be the first to admit that I use the laptop computer to teach myself, and Youtube has become an indispensable resource for American popular music.  It is ironic.  Violent gaming, propaganda, fake news, slander, bullying and the like are at the forefront.  (not to mention readily available hard core pornography!)  These are the ramifications of an infiltrated internet which sorely have marred American society.  The internet ain't what it used to be.  When did this occur?  Before Covid we loved eBay and Amazon.  Because of Covid internet sales became oligarchical.  Because of Donald Trump America has become a third world country.  The little guy is of no consequence, and those little guys are legal and illegal aliens.  We don't know what America is, because there is no main stream.  We can't agree on anything, much less a president.  Our system of education is supposed to provide this cohesion.  If the curriculum agreed upon, then everyone is connected.  Sheltering at home was a tool for separating the nation.  Every aspect of Covid was a blow to American freedom and democracy.  Is it possible to return to normal, or is America changing?  Globalization for the first attack on America, and Covid was the encore.  There is not much left.  The once important American music industry and its cousin Hollywood have been kicked into the dirt.  Now oligarchs receive the royalties and the profits, and there is a necessary strike.  Also there is a lawsuit against SiriusXM for unpaid  royalties.  The little guy was booted out of the equation.  Oligarchs rule the world and now America.  Love is defined as wanting the other person to be happy.  You care about the system and its people.  For the Capitalist free market system to work, companies must care for their workers.  Caring for you workers is keeping them healthy.  America no longer is healthy, and everything is working against us.  The food system is corrupt.  Health care via Big Pharma is corrupt.  It is as if they are trying to kill us.  Deduction?  The Capitalist Free Market system is dead.  DEAD.  It is not necessary.  They have all of the money, and we are left on our own.  Will the American people speak up?  Will we stand up as the last line of defense, a well-armed militia, and fight for our freedom against tyranny?  Will Donald Trump, a traitor, go to prison?